Here’s what they say about each other : NPR

Elon Musk's encyclopedia Grokipedia is now online, challenging volunteer-edited Wikipedia with a new tool that includes Grok, a large language model chatbot developed by Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI.

Musk is positioning Grokipedia as an alternative to Wikipedia, which he called “Wokepedia” in an X post. last December. Musk has big ambitions for the new encyclopedia: stated purpose is to create “a comprehensive, open source collection of all knowledge.”

Critics and experts have been busy comparing the two sites and how they present a range of controversial topics. But we can also learn about some of their differences by asking a simple question: what do Wikipedia and Grokipedia say about each other?

Looking for each other

A search For Wikipedia, Grokipedia had 6,047 results early Wednesday morning, a number that reflects both the work done on Grokipedia and the challenge of competing with an encyclopedia that has been growing for nearly 25 years.

Wikipedia has search The search for “Grokipedia” returned 13 results.

Meanwhile, two days after Monday's launch, a search for “Grokipedia” on Grokipedia returned no results for the special entry. Instead, the eight search results ranged from a general article about online encyclopedias to seven articles primarily about Wikipedia.

We type “grokipedia” in Grokipedia URL to see if the new encyclopedia has an entry that is not yet searchable, the message is returned: “This page does not exist… yet.”

Bias and imitation

on his Wikipedia pageGrokipedia says the site is known for its “unprecedented scale, accessibility and role in the democratization of information.” But Grokipedia also reports that Wikipedia is the target of “constant criticism regarding the reliability of its facts, susceptibility to vandalism and hoaxes, and systemic ideological biases—especially a left-leaning bias in its coverage of political figures and topics.”

The lengthy article uses forms of the word “bias” dozens of times. He argues that Wikipedia suffers from an “ideological bias” to the left and claims that the site preference for a neutral point of view taken from reliable sources may instead reinforce narratives that are “consistent with institutional biases in academia and the media.”

on his Grokipedia pageWikipedia says Musk “positioned Grokipedia as an alternative to Wikipedia that would 'cleanse propaganda.' It also notes that Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who has become a critic of the long-running encyclopedia, welcomed the advent of Grokipedia.

The Wikipedia article on Grokipedia highlights criticism of the new site, such as media reports that Grokipedia article about Elon Musk makes no mention of the controversy over a gesture he made earlier this year “that many considered reminiscent of a Nazi salute.” It also said critics claim Grokipedia promotes right-wing views and relies too heavily on artificial intelligence tools.

Wikipedia also notes that Grokipedia appears to have taken text from Wikipedia, stating: “Some articles are almost identical to Wikipedia entries.”

In some cases, Grokipedia duplicates Wikipedia content, as noted by Media And Wikipedia users. Grokipedia “buttocks” page, for example, is actually a copy wikipedia page (no pictures though).

In this and similar cases, the articles acknowledge that their “content was adapted from Wikipedia.”

Musk said on Universal Podcast conference in September, Grock worked to evaluate information from sources such as Wikipedia pages and then “rewrote the page to… remove falsehoods, correct half-truths, and add missing context.”

Like Wikipedia, Grokipedia users can see the edit history of an article. But while Wikipedia users can edit history directly, Grokipedia offers tools to ask questions and make corrections.

“Wikipedia knowledge is and always will be human knowledge,” the Wikimedia Foundation said in a statement to NPR. Noting the principle of open collaboration and consensus, the company added: “This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to create content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist.”

Nuts and bolts

Numbers rule the Internet, and these two sites estimate the size of their competitor fairly accurately, albeit with some caveats.

Wikipedia, for example, reports that as of October 28, Grokipedia had “nearly 900,000 AI-generated articles.” On the same day, Grokipedia reported that it had 885,279 articles available, a figure published on its landing page. The Wikipedia article on Grokipedia did not mention this exact number. quoted article from Indian financial news site Moneycontrol instead of Grokipedia data – perhaps to capture historical data on the numbers that will be updated. The editor later updated the quote to point to the Axios article.

Grokipedia accurately states that as of October 2025, Wikipedia had over 7 million articles in English. master competitor record. But further down the page, the entry muddies the waters a bit, claiming that by October 2025, Wikipedia had “more than 6.8 million articles in English alone.”

According to Wikipedia's current count, Wikipedia size As of January 2025, there were over 6.9 million articles on the English site.

Disclosure: NPR CEO Catherine Maher is the former CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation.